The fact of the matter is, is that the supply chain right now is incredibly constrained.

Okay? Containers cost more money than they ever have.

Trucking is costing more money than it ever has.

To get things moving around is harder than it's been traditionally.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry professionals.

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by Todd London and Mike Bluaki of Sherwood Lumber, a building

materials wholesaler, headquartered in Melville, New York. You can find the Fine Home Building

Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Home Building podcast at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast.

You can leave feedback and ask questions there too. Gentlemen, thanks very much for being on the show.

Thanks for having us. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Todd, thanks very much for being on the show. Thanks for having us.

Thank you very much. You're welcome. Todd, if you don't mind, can you please tell us what you do

for your company? And can you tell me about what your company does? Sure. So Todd London, senior

vice president for Sherwood Lumber, I oversee the sales and the marketing for Sherwood.

Sherwood's a two-step distributor sales and the marketing for Sherwood.

Sherwood's a two-step distributor.

We focus primarily on two kind of market segments,

one being lumber, which we distribute nationally,

and the other being exterior building products and outdoor living,

which we do regionally in the Northeast,

the Mid-Atlantic, and the Tri-State.

So when you say two-step, I'm guessing that

means that you sell to other companies that then sell to end users, right, to contractors. Is that right?

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